ATLANTIC TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
Atlantic TU Celebrates Pride Month What is Pride and why do we celebrate it? Pride is an opportunity for people from the LGBTQ+ community and their allies to come together to celebrate sexual and gender diversity and support their LGBTQ+ friends and colleagues. Pride month commemorates the Stonewall riots, which lasted 6 days in Manhattan in June 1969 as police clashed with LGBTQ+ protesters
Provisional Dates for Pride Celebrations in the West and North-West Region 2022 Inishowen Pride: June 5 Mayo Pride: July 1-3 Bród na Gaeltachta Cloich Cheann Fhaola: July 18-23 Sligo Pride: August 1-7 Galway Pride: August 8-14 Leitrim Pride: August 15-21 Dublin Pride: June 25 All are welcome to join LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies in celebrating as part of ATU at these events.
ATU Staff and Students at the Inishowen Pride Parade in Buncrana on June 5 2022.
How did Pride start? It came about as a response to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York on June 28, 1969. The Inn was popular with members of the LGBTQ+ community. Patrons of the venue, other nearby lesbian and gay bars and local people fought back when the police became violent. Subsequently, groups got together to commemorate the event and the bravery of those who had stood up for themselves and their
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community. They decided on the name "Gay Pride" to indicate that those involved were proud to be who they were. The group held the first Gay Pride march in New York a year to the day of the original riots. As well as being a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, modern parades also continue the legacy of protest, highlighting inequalities that still exist and the persecution of LGBTQ+ people in various parts of the world. It is still a crime to be LGBTQ+ in over 70 countries.
